Companies preach creativity, hire for conformity and call consultants when they fail who tell them to be more creative.
~ Richie Norton
Want creativity? Diversify your experience to develop your creative muscles.
A little conflict can create a lot of creativity.
The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.
Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear.
If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.
You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.
Believing there is a bridge from where you are to where you want to go is 99% of the battle. The other 1% is to cross it.
Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.
Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even terrifying), but heroic.
Never trust a person that tries to sell you by how righteous they are. I'm telling your right now, it's a scam.
START: Serve, Thank, Ask, Receive, Trust
Trust. And be trusted.
There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.
Don't wait to be compelled to do great work.
The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen.
When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add.
If time were to take on human form, would she be your taskmaster or freedom fighter?
If you can dream it up, you can team it up.
If you can dream it up. You can team it up.
If someone thinks your ideas, the dreams bubbling up inside of you, are stupid, welcome to the Club.
Dreams don’t get done until they are due.
A little piece of everywhere I go becomes a big part of everything I do.
If you don't build a personal brand, someone else will brand you with the wrong label.
A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message.
A brand is a person.
A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message. Build a brand or a brand will build you. Create your personal brand. If you don't build your own brand, you will let someone else brand you with the wrong label.
Build a brand or a brand will build you.
Optimism doesn't make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic.
It’s not about getting out of your comfort zone to reach your goal. It's about widening your comfort zone so far that your goal fits comfortably inside. Once you do that, hitting your goals will be like hitting 3s for Steph Curry.
Widen your comfort zone so your goal fits comfortably inside. Do and you’ll hit goals like Steph Curry hits 3s.
Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.
To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible.
If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.
Life experience is the new work experience.
Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.
All too often people pretend to be professional. Professionalism is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro.
Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing.
It’s really simple. Sell high-value stuff to people who value high-value stuff.
Don’t sell based on inventory. Inventory based on who you want to sell.
